GoogleContainerTools/kaniko

Health v2 · maintenance only

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15776 stars · 1534 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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Kaniko is a tool to build container images from a Dockerfile inside a container or Kubernetes cluster without depending on a Docker daemon. It executes Dockerfile commands entirely in userspace, enabling image builds in environments where running a Docker daemon is impractical or insecure.

Use cases

• build container images inside a Kubernetes cluster without Docker
• build Docker images in CI/CD pipelines without privileged Docker daemon
• build images from a Dockerfile in an unprivileged container
• build images in environments where Docker-in-Docker is insecure
• push built images to a registry from a Kubernetes Job

When to choose

• you need to build images inside Kubernetes without mounting the Docker socket
• your CI environment cannot run a privileged Docker daemon
• you want daemonless, userspace Dockerfile builds

When to avoid

• you need an actively maintained tool - the project is archived
• you need full Docker daemon features like multi-arch builds via buildx
• you can run a Docker daemon or BuildKit safely in your environment

Facets

cli-tool · maturity abandoned

container-runtime build-tool developer-tools deployment cloud-computing developer-tools cloud dockerless image-builder kubernetes ci-cd userspace archived containers devops docker linux

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